Pass case binder



May 27, 1958 -K. F. SONNTAG PASS CASE' BINDER Filed Sept. 16, 1953 INVENTOR Karl E Sonnt :15 BY! A ORNEY United States Patent PASS CASE BINDER Karl F. Sonntag, Watertown, Conn., assignor to Scovill Manufacturing Company, Waterbury, Conn., a corporation of Connecticut Application September 16, 1953, Serial No. 380,391

1 Claim. (Cl. 24-153) This invention relates to a releasable binder intended especially for use in holding one or more envelope compartments to the cover of a pass case.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a simple and eflicient binder which can be easily latched and unlatched for the purpose of assembling or removing the envelope compartments.

Patented May 27, 1958 bar 18 and have a pair of lugs 19 that extend above the U-shaped section of the standard. The clamping bar 18 at its hinged end is provided with a pierced hole 20 and each of the lugs 19 are formed with indented nubs 21 that project into the hole 20 to provide a suitable hinging connection without the need of a rivet.

The sides of the U-shaped portion of the latch standard 15 similar to the hinge standard are also pressed inwardly to approximately the width of the clamping bar 18 and have wings 22 that extend upwardly beyond the U-shaped part of said standard. The wings 22 have parallel portions 23 that embrace the opposite sides of the bar 18 for its full width. Above the parallel sections 23 the wings are formed inwardly as at 23a so that the adjacent surfaces are closer together than the normal thickness of A further object of this invention is to provide a binder consisting of a minimum number of pieces which have the desired strength and which can be made economically from sheet metal.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will appear from the following description of a preferred embodiment of the device hereinafter disclosed.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a pass case having applied thereto a releasable binder embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the releasable binder, per se.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the same.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view through the hinge standard of the binder, the view taken along the line 44 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view through the latch standard taken along the line 5-5 of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 6 is a right end view of the binder showing the clamping bar in released position from the latch standard.

In Fig. 1 my invention is shown in connection with a pass case, which consists of a foldable leather casing 10 and one or more envelope partitions 11 that may be joined together at their inner ends by binding strips 12.

The binder for holding the casing and envelope partitions together consists of a base member 13 made of sheet material and formed into a U-shaped section throughout its full length to give it strength and incidentally present a neat rounding appearance to the exposed part of the binder when applied to the casing. The opposite ends of the base 13 are provided with upwardly extending standards 14 and 15. The left standard 14 as viewed in Fig. 3 being a hinge standard and z the right standard 15 being a bar-holding or latch standard.

The standards 14 and 15 are in fact extensions of the base 13 bent at right angle thereto and likewise are U-shape in cross section. It is to be noted that where the standards 14 and 15 join the base 13 the side portions of their U-shaped section are cut out at 16 and 17 to facilitate the bending of the standards at right angles to the base 13.

A clamping bar 18 of fiat sheet stock, rectangular shape in cross section and of uniform width and thickness throughout its length, is hingedly connected to the hinging standard 14 and is adapted to be releasably clamped in the latch standard 15.

As best shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the sides of the U- shaped portion of the hinge standard 14 are pressed inwardly to approximately the thickness of the clamping said bar so as to provide a resilient catch to hold the bar 18 in closed latched position. When the bar 18 is in latched position it rests against the upper end of the U-shaped section of the standard 15 as determined by the shoulder 24.

For the purpose of assembling the binder to the pass case, piercings 25 and 26 are provided in the hinging portion of the leather casing 10 and the binding strips 12 of the envelope partitions as shown in Fig. 1. In assembling the binder to the pass case the bar 18 may be swung to lie substantially in axially alignment with the hinge standard 14 and inserted through the piercing 25 and then both the hinge standard 14 and the latch standard 15 inserted respectively through the piercings 25 and 26 to a position where the base member 13 will lie flat against the outer surface of the hinging portion of the leather casing 10. When thus assembled the bar 18 may be swung to closed position and resiliently held by the wings 22 of the latch standard 15 to clamp all the parts of the pass case together as aunit.

From Figs. 1 and 3 it will be observed that when in closed position the length of the bar 18 is such as to extend a sufiicient distance outwardly from the latch standard 15 to provide a suitable handle 18a for convenience in manipulating the clamping bar 18.

One form of the invention is presented herein for the purpose of exemplification but it will be appreciated that the invention is susceptible of changes and other structural modified forms coming equally within the scope or the appended claim.

What I claim is:

A releasable binder comprising a U-shaped bar providing a relatively stilt base where the concave side of the bar faces upwardly, the ends of said bar being bent upwardly at right angles to said base to provide end standards where the concave side of each standard faces inwardly toward the other standard, a clamping bar pivotally mounted to the upper end of one standard and being of suflicient length to extend beyond the other standard, said other standard having wings constituting extensions of the sides of the U-shaped section which wings are sufliciently close together as to frictionally grip the clamping bar, that portion of the clamping bar which extends beyond said wings serving as a handle to affect its release from the clamping member.

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